On 8/16/22 14:48, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
On 8/14/22 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 8/13/22 11:42, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>> On 8/10/22 16:20, Roger Heflin wrote:
>>> dnf --noautoremove group remove gnome-desktop
>>>
>>> If you have a group installed (gnome-desktop) it appears to add
>>> the protection to prevent that group from being removed, so the
>>> entire group has to go.
>> Thanks a lot for info! Unfortunately it does not work: [root@c340-sev
>> ~]# dnf --noautoremove group remove gnome-desktop Error: Problem: The
>> operation would result in removing the
>> following protected packages: gnome-shell (try to add
>> '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
>>
>> Why in the world would be gnome-shell unremovable? And does anyone
>> have an idea where is the list of packages deemded unremovable?
>
> I assume this was a workstation install. You need to replace the
> "fedora-release-identity-workstation" package with a different
> identity.
Thanks a lot for info!! I was not aware of this kind of packages
and their content!!
The problem was solved by installing (--allowerasing) the kde identity
You could also do that with:
dnf swap fedora-release-identity-workstation fedora-release-identity-kde